Breezy Critical Security Threat

March 13th, 2006

With Breezy running on three of my systems here, I was a bit surprised to find this post on the Ubuntu security forum; root password in plain text in a file that is readable by all users, on a standard installation. I am amazed that nobody has spotted this before - surely there has been some paranoid user who has searched for his password in case he accidentally left it in plaintext somewhere. Now is a good time to update your system, and change your password while you’re at it.

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